Relativism—Descriptive and Normative

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ethical (“normative”) relativism. Descriptive relativism—This is the view that different cultures have different moral codes. The moral codes of traditional Eskimos, of feudal Japanese, of modern Western Europeans, of ancient Greeks, of New Guinea headhunters, etc. differ in some fairly significant ways.

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